Chance of asteroid 2024YR4 hitting Earth RISES & now ‘unacceptable to ignore’…with Armageddon-style nuke plan ‘needed’ AN asteroid the size of a football pitch cannot be ignored, an expert has warned after its chances of hitting Earth increased.
"The nuclear device is not like you see in Armageddon where you send drillers to put the bomb in the core of the asteroid and destroy it - the idea is to detonate it at a certain distance from the asteroid.
The discovery sparked plans that a nuclear weapon could be sent into space to deflect the space rock measuring 330ft by 130ft which could smash into the planet, causing severe damage.
NASA said: "In the unlikely event that 2024YR4 is on an impact trajectory, the impact would occur somewhere along a risk corridor which extends across the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia.
"Triggering an explosion a certain distance away from an asteroid is extremely complex and nobody would agree to test it before a real threat is identified so you really would have a total lack of knowledge of how to do it.".
